
Shuvosaurus
Sign in to saveShuvosaurus (meaning "Shuvo [Chatterjee]'s lizard") is a genus of beaked, bipedal poposauroid pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic (early to middle Norian) of western Texas. Despite superficially resembling a theropod dinosaur, especially the ostrich-like ornithomimids, it is instead more closely related to living crocodilians than to dinosaurs. Shuvosaurus is known by the type and only species S. inexpectatus, and is closely related to the very similar Effigia within the clade Shuvosauridae. Shuvosaurus was originally described from a restored skull and very few fragmentary postcranial bones
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- Parent taxon
- Shuvosauridae
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- time period
- Late Triassic
- taxon name
- Shuvosaurus
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- Shuvosaurus
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